Help them move

That annoying whackjob, Cindy Sheehan, is apparently filled with shame upon seeing the American flag. Good. I hope it lasts. Perhaps the day will come when she will bo so ashamed, that she'll move someplace else - I don't know, France? I really wish there were an exchange program, under which all these "Americans" who hate their own country would be given the option to settle elsewhere, in exchange for someone settling in the US. Wouldn't it be humanitarian? Wouldn't it make a lot of people happier and, by extension, the world a happier place?

It's an idea I keep coming back to. I even thought of creating a website with a database, where people willing to emigrate to the US could register, and eventually be matched with people, who would like to leave the US and live in their country. Say, a 3-person family from Turin, Italy could be exchanged for a family from San Franciso, perhaps taking account of their level of education and social status. (One needs to be fair and make sure that the other countries don't end up with all of our nutjobs, giving us their best and brightest in exchange. We've been already accused of sucking up talent from everywhere, even without a program like this.) Perhaps, with enough matches in the database, we could exert pressure on governments to sign up and allow the exchanges to happen? What would they have to lose, except a bunch of dissatisfied people?

(Alas, there is little hope that scoundrels like Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky will leave. They are making a bundle of money on their hatred of the United States - doing it from outside wouldn't be nearly as profitable, and they might end up living in a cave like that "freedom fighter" Osama.)

Oh, by the way: seeing the American flag fills me with pride. It's hearing the idiotic pronouncements of people like Cindy Sheehan that fills me with disgust.

Happy Birthday, America!